[OSGeo-Standards] SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 released

[Satoru Takagi]

Hi Daniel,

SVG Map Toolkit is not an open source. Its openness is the 
specifications which it is based on. SVG Map Toolkit is based on SVG 1.1 
Tiny.
Openness of specifications of the W3C including SVG is improved by its 
royalty-free policy. On the other hand, for example, it is not 
guaranteed with the specifications of ISO.

Especially, SVG Map Toolkit supports Geographic Coordinate System 
specifications of SVG1.1.  And probably it is the only implementation to 
realize layering based on it and hyperlink.

Because there are not so much the demand in Japan though it is 
technically possible, implementation on non-Windows platforms excluding 
BREW is not still examined.

Regards,

Satoru Takagi

Daniel Morissette さんは書きました:
> Could you please clarify the license terms of SVG Map Toolkit? Is it an 
> open source license or not?
> 
> The notes at http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/09/svg_map_toolkit.html seem 
> to suggest that it has a "trial time limit" ... and I can't read the 
> license in Japanese.
> 
> Also, are there plans to port the toolkit to non-Windows platforms?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> Satoru Takagi wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I continue working on Web GIS application of SVG.
>>
>> The project is called SVG Map and uses SVG as mechanism for 
>> inter-operation (mash-up) of the GISs by the hyperlink that is not 
>> existing WebGIS mechanism to use SVG (or web browser) for as only mere 
>> indication mechanism. In other words it has the client centric 
>> inter-operation architecture not a server centric architecture that 
>> demanded a great deal of operative costs.
>> In addition, the project takes the support from the Japanese 
>> Government as de-jure standardization.
>>
>> SVG Map has the specifications that some expansion was given to SVG 
>> which we call SVG Map Profile.
>>
>> SVG Map Profile :
>> http://blog.svg-map.com/2008/07/the-index-of-sv.html
>>
>> We have released SVG Map Toolkit as implementation of SVG Map Profile. 
>> SVG Map Toolkit is a viewer of ActiveX type for IE.
>> And latest SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0 were released this time.
>>
>> Download SVG Map Toolkit 0.7.0:
>> http://blog.svg-map.com/2008/09/svg-map-toolkit.html